Well, Scala & Kolacny Brothers' cover of "Creep" to be precise. It works extraordinarily well in this preview of the David Fincher-directed, Aaron Sorkin-adapted, surprisingly great-looking movie about Facebook. Watch it here. (Also, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross wrote the score.)… More »

If you've caught the revamped Behind The Music series, you know Lil Wayne's episode was a quote factory. The clip below of quotables from Courtney Love's interviews hints that her show may top his. Love's episode of VH1's Behind The Music airs June 21 at 8:30pm EST, but they've been rolling out sneak preview… More »

As we mentioned, starting today you can download a free 320 kbps version of How To Destroy Angels' debut self-titled EP with the below widget. For a $2 upgrade, you'll get it in your choice of high quality formats (FLAC, Apple Lossless and 24-bit, 44.1 kHz WAV) along with their "The Space… More »

If you're not that into the frequently photographed Mariqueen Maandig's singing, "The Believers" just might be the How To Destroy Angels track for you. At least for the first three minutes. After that, she whispers that slinky trip-hop whisper, as heard on previous HTDA outings. This time, though, the music's a bit more Atari… More »

Trent Reznor is a man of his word: A year after promising the filmmakers behind Tetsuo: The Bullet Man an original song for their film, he sent them this ambient track in February. It's perfect exit music that goes from harsh to beautiful to grand and climactic over its five minutes. The Bullet Man i… More »

"A Drowning" was the first taste from How To Destroy Angels, Trent Reznor's new project with his new wife Mariqueen Maandig, but "The Space In Between" gets the first proper video. First thoughts on the clip? What a terrible honeymoon. Maandig sings, while Reznor and Maandig bleed to death, then catch o… More »

We were introduced to Trent Reznor and wife Mariqueen Maandig's How To Destroy Angels via the birth of a website and a 40-second clip of Maandig playing a Korg MS-20. Now we have a full-on song, "A Drowning," and as the above press photos suggests, Maandig is again the focus. It's seven minutes, icy,… More »

Last year Trent Reznor handled his midlife crisis the way most any rational adult would: He quit Web 2.0, dissolved his iconic musical project, got married to the press-photo scene-stealer from West Indian Girl. Textbook midlife crisis stuff. After cleaning out his closet, and making room next to the dresser full of… More »

Maybe it was these tough economic times -- the sinking music industry, everyone downloading shit for free, rising unemployment. Or perhaps folks just are getting stir crazy from lack of fresh air, sitting in front of their laptops/4-tracks while their bodies slowly give way. Whatever the case, bands were super bitchy this year. Some fight… More »

They've enlisted the NSA to uncover records detailing how loud music is used as an interrogation tactic. Previously unearthed documents suggest NIN, Drowning Pool (they're flattered), and RHCP were blasted along with the Meow Mix jingle. More here. More »

Now that Nine Inch Nails are done touring, Trent has time for exciting new projects. Like a commercial for the ridiculous pseudo-science drama Fringe? Apparently he refused compensation, just wanting "to have fun and be part of something cool." Watch. More »

The NIN frontman wed former West Indian Girl singer Mariqueen Maandig Saturday. Guitarist Danny Lohner broke the news on Twitter ("Goths the world over will mourn this day") with a pic of the couple dancing. Gossip blogger Trent Vargas attended and has photos here and here. More »

Nine Inch Nails waved goodbye to New York this week with gigs at Bowery, Webster (featuring The Downward Spiral in its entirety), and Terminal 5 (featuring Peter Murphy). Chicago, Toronto, and LA are on deck, and then it's an "indefinite hiatus" for NIN while Trent focuses on QAing Android apps or something. One thing's clear,… More »

A few weeks ago, Trent sat for a crowdsourced interview with Digg's Kevin Rose. It looked like a success, but (surprise) NIN fanboys weren't satisfied with the questions. Never one to shy away from interacting with his followers, Trent agreed to answer ten more questions direct from his fan forum (via TwentyFourBit.). More »

First the bad news. Only a couple weeks after we told you about Reznor demoing and launching the NIN iPhone App, he's angrily (reasonably so) posting on his webboard about Apple rejecting an update because of its inclusion of "objectionable content," aka 1994's "The Downward Spiral." He calls out the company's hypocrisy, comparing… More »

We just saw Perry Farrell and his wife practically fuck onstage at Coachella. Things between members of Jane's Addiction aren't as amorous. In a Reuters interview yesterday, the band's frontman says tourmate Trent Reznor tried and failed to mediate after watching JA "explode" on each other in the studio. The silver lining, Perry… More »

Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction are calling their new working relatinship NINJA. Clever. When photos of Trent hanging out in his studio with Perry Farrell, Eric Avery, Stephen Perkins, and Dave Navarro surfaced last month we suspected more was afoot than a co-headlining victory tour with Street Sweeper. Turns out they laid… More »

It'll be news to nobody when I say this, but I'll say it anyway: Chris Cornell's Scream is horrible. There are plenty of albums released in a year that aren't so hot, but this goes beyond that to something wrong on so many levels. To put it in an aging rocker context: It makes Chinese… More »

Remember those photos of Trent Reznor in the studio with Jane's Addiction? Well, turns out Reznor's taking the guys with him on NIN's last US tour. What?! As he notes, "[I]t's time to make NIN disappear for a while." He chose JA to accompany him on his victory lap because after listening to the… More »

It's unclear what's happening just yet, but photos of Trent hanging out in his studio with Eric Avery, Stephen Perkins, and Dave Navarro have surfaced at nin.com (one with Reznor and a shadowy Perry Farrell is on the main page as we speak). Rolling Stone's Smoking Section has the pic of Trent and… More »

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Jay Z bought the Swedish company Aspiro's streaming music service Tidal less than a month ago, but that didn't stop him from rolling out his rebranded product today with lots of fanfare from his famous friends. Rumors before the 5PM livestream suggested that Jay's newfangled Tidal would be launched with exclusive… More »

Jay Z is not playing with his big rollout of the streaming service Tidal. After many big stars tweeted their support last night, those same stars have shown up in a new 30-second spot for the service's big relaunch today. In the ad, we see a collection of luminaries -- Jay, Kanye West,… More »

Jay Z wants you to know that Tidal, the Scandinavian high-fidelity streaming service that he bought earlier this month, is a big deal. So he didn't just get some of music's biggest stars to tweet about the service's big relaunch, which is happening today. He got them all to change their social media… More »

Burger Records held their fourth annual Burgerama festival at the Observatory in Santa Ana this past weekend. The two-day fest featured appearances from bands like Together PANGEA, Fidlar, La Luz, Gang Of Four, Public Access T.V. and many, many more. Ty Segall and Weezer were the headliners, and Rivers Cuomo's dad Frank Cuomo made… More »